November 2009 - Posts

Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework
15 November 09 07:10 PM | dpblogs | 2 Comments   

The goal of this walkthrough is to demonstrate a basic scenario for the use of the Self-Tracking Entities feature of Entity Framework. Self-Tracking Entities consist on a set of code generation templates based on Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework Futures, Entity Framework Feature CTP2 for .NET 4.0

Attachment(s): EFFeatureCTP2_Walkthrough_STE.ZIP

Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework
12 November 09 10:40 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   

This post covers Code Only improvements in the CTP2 release for VS 2010 Beta2. This walkthrough shows how you can change the default model like specifying property facets and navigation property inverses as well change the default mapping by changing Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework Futures, Entity Framework Feature CTP2 for .NET 4.0

Attachment(s): CodeOnlyWalkThru.zip

Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types
12 November 09 12:07 PM | dpblogs | 4 Comments   

A new feature of the Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 is the ability to return collections of complex type instances from stored procedures. In the next public release of the designer, we have enriched this functionality by adding the ability to automatically Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Entity Framework Futures

There is still time to make yourself heard
09 November 09 04:29 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   

The ADO.NET Providers team still needs your input. This is the last week to answer our ADO.NET Managed Providers Planning survey. Help us to make the decisions that will benefit our database community. The survey can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/11/01/the-ado-net-providers-team-wants-to-hear-your-opinion.aspx Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, SQLClient

Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework
06 November 09 02:06 PM | dpblogs | 10 Comments   

Last March Alex James posted to our design blog about our plans for adding foreign keys to the entity framework . Since then we’ve pushed forward with implementing FK associations and properties and have included them in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 . This Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Entity Framework Futures

Model First with the Entity Framework 4
05 November 09 09:52 AM | dpblogs | 5 Comments   

In a previous post , we walked through the designer’s “out of the box” database schema generation experience. In this post, we show how some new designer features in VS2010 Beta 2 integrate with this capability, then we pop the hood and show how easy Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Entity Framework Futures

ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview Released!
04 November 09 03:25 PM | dpblogs | 15 Comments   

We’ve released an update of the Entity Framework Feature CTP ! The updated CTP includes many requested improvements and added features we’ve gathered from the community since the release of our first CTP and supports installation with Visual Studio 2010 Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, What's New, Entity Framwork Feature CTP2 for .NET 4.0

The ADO.NET Providers team wants to hear your opinion
01 November 09 11:30 AM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   

This is the time when we, the ADO.NET Providers team, take a step back, review our goals for the next release and identify areas for investments. We view YOU as a key stakeholder in this process and would like to gather your inputs in this survey, which Read More...